"It would be both appropriate and useful for the courts to handle eyewitness identifications in the same manner they handle physical trace evidence and scientific evidence, by placing at least an ...

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CEDAR RAPIDS — An Arkansas psychology professor testified Friday there has been research and several studies on the reliability of eyewitness identification, depending on variety of circumstances, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to extend constitutional safeguards against the use of some eyewitness testimony at criminal trials, despite concerns that eyewitness ...

A common Psych101 exercise involves a rendition of pennies on a slide. Only one is the real penny; the others have various mistakes like the wrong wording or tweaks to Abe Lincoln profile that make it ...

Charles Don Flores' mugshot bears little resemblance to a sketch based on an eyewitness's description given shortly after the murder. Charles Don Flores is on death row in Texas, where he was ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A man’s plea to prevent eyewitness evidence from being used at his murder trial has been dismissed. After 16 months, 50 pages of arguments and two hearings, a Franklin County ...

A unanimous panel, relying heavily on an amicus curiae brief from The Innocence Project, concluded that accepted scientific evidence raises significant questions about the reliability of the ...

Eyewitness identification remains a pivotal yet complex facet of criminal investigations and legal proceedings. Research in this area spans from the cognitive processes underlying face recognition to ...

A Duluth jury will be asked to weigh the reliability of eyewitness identification when a stabbing suspect goes to trial on attempted murder and assault charges this month. Andre Verlin Anderson, 28, ...